Love Quotes Quote by Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

“Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.”

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”

“There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.”

““Wherever you will go,”

“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”

“Whoever said that love hurts was wrong. Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost...I wouldn't survive that”

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.”